I think Pink is right, though their would be a camapign urging people to vote either way and would distract the club (though you would hope not the playing staff.)

Its a good question as to why the club won't ask the supporters and I think the window dressing that is the SAB is a joke when you think the biggest decision has been made with no debate.

There will be no debate about the resubmission of a proposed move and I would be very suprised if there are anymore SAB meetings before Christmas (January) as the white elephant in the room will be to great to ignore.

Well some people say no to the move come what may, which is fair enough, there's some compelling arguements as to why we shouldn't move. Personally I'm in the 'if it can be done properly then yes' camp. I'm currently of the opinion that there are too many shades of grey for G&S to put together a fan ballot (we don;t know if we'll get naming rights, etc)

If you at this moment in time you are against the move then you need to start protesting now! A wait and see attitude will result in too little too late as probably by the time details are announced there will not be enough time to gain any momentum and you lose. It's far easier to stop protesting if the plans allay your fears.

Personall I feel that any protest will struggle to gain sufficient numbers ie >7,500 to affect the outcome but you wont know till you try.

Sweeney Bod wrote:I look back to the Bond days and have some good memories of the protests, but it did tear the club in two. In hindsight, we should have ignored it. Few bought Bonds, and it died a natural death. The protests only really served to get the club relegated.

It is pretty much certain that we are going to the OS, and nothing we can do will change it. It has always been part of the G&S business model. Protesting will just serve to create an atmosphere where players will want to leave, or not be bothered if we went up or not. The sad truth is, like the Bond, the only recourse if you are truly unhappy is to just not purchase a ticket when we move there

The actual final deal that a few took up was a great deal for the bondholder...

e1hammer wrote:Is it simply a coincidence that the majority of people that are pro a move are all new to the site or have very small post counts?

Romford wrote:I think its the other way around personally

I doubt there's any correlation to be found, it's such a contentious issue that you'll probably find all sorts of different fans with differing opinions on it. I'm quite new to KUMB, but not new to following West Ham, and can't quite decide what bloody opinion I've got on the whole debacle!

bendavids wrote:I doubt there's any correlation to be found, it's such a contentious issue that you'll probably find all sorts of different fans with differing opinions on it. I'm quite new to KUMB, but not new to following West Ham, and can't quite decide what bloody opinion I've got on the whole debacle!

We got an awful lot of new members when the OS decision was being made...all with names like "boleynforerever". Most still have only 100 posts to their name.

I've managed to drag a few into arguments on other threads ...but they mostly just want to talk about the ground.

As for the whole debacle...I actually agree BUT this is people moaning about a ground that is currently an athletics track.

No-one would want to go there now...but its what it can be thats the important thing.